THE SHAPELY FLAME AND FROST OF LIVING SKELETONS

Tissue-thin discs of radiant energy--visible light,
vents of the whole world
under the influx of the stars
breath is double;
a hurricane caught hydrofoils
a hand-punched hole
they passed through it
to the mercury beneath

Among these are pulsars
new objects in the sky
a cross-shaped radiotelescope
bits of stars
have broken off
intelligent beings somewhere
if this happened
light is a strange color, quite unlike
light from anything else

Many are radio-waves sent out by stars
in striking and killing
it may at the same time strike others
tight flocks
con whose colonies exist in a togetherness
smoking iron monster
who calls every evening
when they dip into the third dimension
our computers are activated by thought
the mother ships are thousands of shining souls

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